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Kathy Hochul tells reporters that congestion pricing would increase "the cost of a piece of pizza" x.com/Newyorkist/s...
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She should make like a NY slice and fold
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Honestly anyone who calls it a piece and not a slice should be run out of town on a rail.
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Hochul then heard muttering "ok what else do these peasants like"
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The Gabagool Index will skyrocket!
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ASL interpreter looks like she's making the jackoff motion as hard as she can
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ASL interpreter signs what we're all thinking.
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wut? aren't overnight commercial vehicles exempt??
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Nearly! 75% off. $9 instead of $36
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And it's not like these delivery trucks drive in to go to a single business. $9 is nothing, but $9 distributed among multiple businesses is truly nothing
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and typically holds more than one pizza worth of ingredients
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but what about the drivers who come into Manhattan to pick up exactly one pizza, then drive into Jersey to deliver it.
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$8 pizza $158 delivery charge someone please help my family is starving
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And with fewer cars on the road and less traffic they’ll save the nine goddamn dollars in time and fuel
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Triple it again.
I have been negatively polarized into thinking the MTA should triple the congestion driving fee.
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Sometimes a single truck can carry enough cheese to make SIX pizzas
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Giuseppe’s artisanal pizza ingredients delivery Fiat is an outlier and should be disregarded
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"Hello Dominos franchise. It is I, your cheese delivery van here to deliver...[checks clipboard]...1/8 cup of cheese for your piece of pizza. Sign here please."
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Most of the EU already uses ECargos for metro deliveries. Depo van to a collection point and EC's for last mile..
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Particularly if they get essentially one single extra delivery done per day.
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Seriously, she's a fucking idiot. The worst Dem governor in America. Also, when the other Dem women governors got together for a lunch date like two years ago she was the only one who wasn't there.
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Ngl I don't understand NY politics. Like, at all.
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Same, only a handful of Dem NYC city council members and Dem House members (like AOC) and Tish James and Alvin Bragg are decent. The rest are a fucking joke.
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It’s basically like Mississippi, except it makes the national press. This doesn’t make me happy to say.
NYS is perhaps the best illustration of the political science finding that having your capital not be in your metropolis produces bad governance (because journalists focus on the metropolis and neglect state government).
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True and that used to be the case here in Illinois but Pritzker and new Dem state leg leadership fixed that problem over the past three years.
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It consists mostly of suffering with some very occasional (unintentional) comedy
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Hochul was Cuomo's "upstate balance" running mate until Cuomo imploded. If you remember the opera buffa bit from The Power Broker in which Vincent Impellitteri fell into the Mayoralty, it's the same story but in Albany. But Impy was a bit too shy and self-effacing for Hochulesque stunts.
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The problem with having the media and business sector mostly HQ'd in NYC is it creates the worst kind of politicians. The same can be said of San Fran and Seattle due to the techbros there.
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no, but they wouldn't pay much. about 1/4 of what they'd pay during the day
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honestly, I think overnight (11am-5am or whatever) should be exempt. and there should be some lower than full charge off hours rate (say $8) weekends and evenings. but no one asked me
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wouldn't a reduction in congestion make deliveries more efficient and possibly end up paying the reduced fee itself
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Keeping the cost of a slice low in exchange for being able to breathe the air in the city is a tradeoff, I'll give her that.
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did she say piece instead of slice? why don’t NY pols understand pizza
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She sure did! I'm seeing a lot of disgust from New Yorkers in my mentions over that
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To be fair, "piece" is normal in Western NY which is where she's from
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And nobody's proposing congestion pricing for Skaneateles.
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She is welcome to unpause congestion pricing and then return there
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Yet Western NY is not normal so